Labor

The Culture Workers Go On Strike

Alissa Quart / Economic Hardship Reporting Project Dec 2, 2022 Cultural and academic workers would seem to benefit from disruptions of business, including the formation of new unions and strikes by existing ones. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Police Seek Motive After Teen Throws Boy From Tate Modern’s 10th Floor

The Associated Press Aug 5, 2019 The 6-year-old is in critical but stable condition after falling from the London museum's open-air terrace to a fifth-floor roof. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Vladimir Putin Opens Russian ‘Military Disneyland’

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Jun 16, 2015 The Russian president used the opening of Patriot Park to announce a dramatic expansion of the country’s nuclear arsenal. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Museum Day

Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain Jul 13, 2014 Dig deeper

On the Big Rock

Paul Von Blum / Truthdig Mar 13, 2012 My largest problem with "Levitated Mass" is not with its artistic quality (or lack of quality), but rather with the excessive cost of the process.If LACMA wants to call Heizer's "creation" art, let that appellation stand, but art can and should be subject to critical judgment. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

‘The Scream’ to Scare Up $80M at Auction

Staff / Truthdig Feb 23, 2012 It's one of the most widely recognized images in art, and now one of four versions of Edvard Munch's archetypal image of modern angst is going on the block at Sotheby's New York auction house with an expected selling price of $80 million or more. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Degenerate Art’ Resurfaces in Berlin

Staff / Truthdig Dec 2, 2010 An assortment of sculptures once derided by the Nazis as prime examples of "degenerate art" -- complete with a Third Reich-sponsored show under that heading -- has been partly recovered and reunited for a comeback exhibit at Berlin's Neues Museum. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Holocaust Museum Borrows Superman’s Architect

Staff / Truthdig Oct 15, 2010 America's original Holocaust museum has a new permanent home in Los Angeles that looks like it was beamed into existence from the future. In keeping with the theme, visitors are each assigned a personal iPod Touch to enhance their exploration of the building's mysterious innards. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Russia Fines Art Mongers for Provoking Church

Staff / Truthdig Jul 13, 2010 It is officially not safe to put Mickey Mouse's head on Jesus' body if you live in Russia. A Russian court has fined the creators of a museum show more than $11,000 on the grounds they incited hatred. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Five Famous Paintings Swiped in Paris Museum Heist

Staff / Truthdig May 20, 2010 Somehow, a lone art bandit -- or a band of bandits -- managed to pull off an impressive five-finger-discount maneuver at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris on Wednesday night, making off with five masterpieces worth a grand total of close to 100 million euros. Sacré bleu! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Missing Album From Hitler’s Fantasy Museum Found in Ohio

Staff / Truthdig Dec 10, 2009 The world's most famous failed art student planned to build a "Führermuseum" in his hometown and fill it with his favorite (and often ill-gotten) art -- photos of which were collected first in various scrapbooks. One of those volumes was just discovered in the Ohio home of a WWII veteran, who decided to have it returned to Germany. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google Goes to Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Nov 25, 2009 The Internet Juggernaut, pursuing its quest to make all the world's information universally available, has gone to the national museum in Baghdad, which was notoriously looted following the U.S. invasion of Iraq. CEO Eric Schmidt made the trek to announce that Google has photographed thousands of the just-reopened museum's treasures. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )